secretary Quotes

In Syria, while secretary of state, Clinton watched as United Nations resolution after U.N. resolution failed. She accomplished nothing except to repeat the refrain, \'Assad must go.\'

Clinton considers the 2011 overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya to be one of her finest hours as secretary of state. President Obama considers it one of his worst failures.

The job of a press secretary is to translate tongue-tied lies into a language that is understandable to everyone.

Nominating Susan Rice for Secretary of State is a mistake not just because of her Sunday show deceptions but because her tenure as America\'s representative to the U.N. has been unworthy of a promotion.

John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let\'s face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four years. From the moment Hillary entered Foggy Bottom, political reporters have treated their beloved secretary of state with kid gloves.

Most people in Washington assumed if Obama made it to the White House he would appoint Biden as his secretary of state, a position Biden openly admitted he wanted.

Ironically, Hillary Clinton\'s appointment in 2008 as secretary of state was forced on Obama by her presidential campaign supporters, who insisted she play a major role in the then-new Democratic administration after a bruising primary fight.

A press secretary is a bell on the ruler\'s cap. Or a tail running before the dog?

On March 15, 1991, US Secretary of State Baker told Gorbachev: \"We want you to succeed. We want it as much as you do, and maybe even more.\" Gorbachev found worthy words: \"Well, that\'s unlikely.\" What is this, a strong male friendship or true love?

Vasily Shuisky was not a regional committee secretary before being elected tsar.

The secretary of the regional committee is not a position, but a state of mind.

I\'m not just equality minister I am also a Treasury secretary.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang out with Tom Stoppard for a bit. My mum was his wife\'s secretary. He was obviously super smart, but he was also approachable and normal. I think he was the first person I\'d ever met who I\'d thought, \'Oh, I see. There\'s a living in this.\'

[If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don\'t know. I\'ll probably end up working in the cafeteria.

At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn\'t right for me to take that step.

I was secretary of the Treasury when the credit bubble burst, so I think it\'s fair to say that I know a little bit about risk, assessing outcomes, and problem-solving.

I was secretary of the Treasury in 2008. In that role, I had the privilege to work with many talented men and women in government and the private sector who labored to pull our nation back from the brink of disaster.

I know President Obama and Secretary Clinton are committed to bringing America together. This needs to be a time of redemption, not a time of recrimination.

I have seen the president and Secretary Tillerson work together. They work very well together. They talk through things. And then they manage it properly.

Secretary Tillerson is not going anywhere. I can vouch for that. He is where he is, he continues to be strong in how he handles foreign policy, and I continue to work well with him.

Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from the running to be the next secretary of state. The thing is, she was never nominated. I think this whole thing has been a giant distraction. I think [Barack] Obama wanted somebody else in there all along.

I could be wrong about that, and [Susan Rice ] may have really wanted [secretary of state place]. But now she has become a liability. If, in fact, it was legitimate. If [Barack Obama] wanted her and she wanted it, they\'ve told her to go pound sand now, and that\'s purely because of Benghazi.

As secretary of state Hillary Clinton was rolled by everybody.

[Barack Obama and Susan Rice] simply do not want any hearings on Benghazi, and they wouldn\'t be able to avoid it if she\'s up there as secretary of state.

Senator McCain is all for John Kerry. Do you know they\'re buddies? McCain is in favor of Kerry being secretary of state. Somebody the other day suggested, maybe it was just today, a bipartisan compromise and nominate Colin Powell to be secretary of state again. What would be bipartisan about that? He\'s not a Republican.

Under the old constitution, a secretary of the treasury for instance, had no opportunity, save by his annual reports, of presenting any scheme or plan of finance or other matter. He had no opportunity of explaining, expounding, enforcing, or defending his views of policy; his only resort was through the medium of an organ. In the British parliament, the premier brings in his budget and stands before the nation responsible for its every item. If it is indefensible, he falls before the attacks upon it, as he ought to. This will now be the case to a limited extent under our system. In the new constitution, provision has been made by which our heads of departments can speak for themselves and the administration, in behalf of its entire policy, without resorting to the indirect and highly objectionable medium of a newspaper. It is to be greatly hoped that under our system we shall never have what is known as a government organ.

In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.

I did a week-long assessment in 2005 at (then Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld\'s request. Following our return, I told him that Afghanistan was going to be the longest campaign of what we then termed \'the long war.\'